Three loud cheers for Terry Smythe leading the way with this yet again!
The one good thing about the Internet is that that there is no premium
on sharing knowledge.  I'm going to follow Terry's fine example also and
I encourage others to do likewise.  To start with I've put on my site
a full PDF document of a very rare full-color UK 1913 Kastner Autopiano
brochure.  This is all free, freebie, no-charge, gratis, help yourself,
enjoy!

Why am I not charging even "to help fund the purchase of the next
original item"?  Well, I bought it myself for myself but it sits on
a shelf collecting dust.  I could sell a few scrappy photocopies but
that's not really sharing.  It's nicer to know that two hundred, five
hundred or even one thousand people have now had a look and enjoyed it
also.  If you enjoy it drop me an email; it's always nice to see how
far-flung the Internet reaches out to people.

About this catalog: Kastner fitted US-made Autopiano actions here in
the UK and I wrote an article in the Player Piano Group journal a few
years back about this catalog which contains details of the Kastonome
range (Kastner modified the valves in the standard Autopiano stack for
this).

I also have the original trade price list but will separately upload
this plus the article on it all in the next week or so.  I scanned it
with a relatively low resolution and compressed it to make the file
load manageable and you can still read it and print it perfectly well.
You can also download and print out for free any and all the other
articles previously there as tidy Adobe PDF files.  (Click on the
"texts" link on my page for all these things)

Lurking around here, yet to be scanned, is also a post-WW1 counterpart
color catalog from when Kastner became Triumph Autopiano, showing all
the range in the late teens.  I'll also scan and upload in a few weeks
a large cache of player piano import-export trade documentation!

For anyone in the UK I am happy to assist in scanning and uploading
archival material of this nature.  I believe it is better to do it
all this way instead of dumping stuff into society archives.  Most
societies are not geared for open access of archives, let alone know
what's in their archives.  Virtually none have any proper program of
archiving and sharing material as they typically lack resources and
enthusiasm.

With kind regards,
Adam Ramet
www.themodist.com